Posterity is the laziest and most incompetent of critics. - Northrop Frye

Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life...is to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in.